A place to find and suggest books for children with autism, and to discuss autism and reading comprehension.

Friday, June 20, 2014

Education Friday - Proximity and Variety

Happy Summer!School's out and the kids are home.Which means brief entries or noneat all.Two thoughts for summer reading -ProximityWith my both my boys, I'vehad some luck with product placement.I put a book (instructive or appealing,or with luck, both) next to them orin a place where they are going to be soon. In some cases, in the car,I reach it back to them.Here's the hard part - I say nothing.They either read it or they don't.The decision is theirs.This sometimes works.When I was a child, my Father insistence thatI read Kim kept me away from it from months.When he shut up about it, I sought it out andread it and decided I loved Rudyard Kipling books.VarietyMy oldest son (the one with autism)has to read The Hound of the Baskervillesthis Summer. He has challenges withhis working memory andcomprehension. He can reada book aloud and be unable to tell youanything but the number of chapters and what page each started on. So I'm trying the multi-channel approach.Before we started, we watched booktrailers for it on the computer.We're listening to it, he's reading it,and he's reading the graphic novel.He's also working on it in Extended School Year. I'll let you know how he does with it.A typically developing child would probablybe heartily sick of the book by now.But he seems no more reluctant thanusual to read it.

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I'm the mother of two boys. My twelve year old was diagnosed with PDD-NOS at age two. Reading is a huge big happy place for me. But I couldn't find
a blog that regularly gives book
recommendations for kids on the spectrum, so I created this one - a book of interest every Wednesday and thoughts/info on
reading as people contribute them or as
the spirit moves me. I welcome on topic
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